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  Hoyts serves up food, drink via mobile payment app

  Sydney Hoyts customers will be the first in the world to pilot a mobile payment application developed by MasterCard called QkR which allows them to order food and drinks without leaving their seat.

• How to kick start your social media strategy — Commonwealth Bank focusses on Facebook

  Bank bashing may be somewhat of a national pastime. But that hasn’t stopped the Commonwealth Bank from attracting more than 100,000 ‘fans’ to its Facebook page a year after launching its page on the social network.

• Commonwealth Bank glitch leaves customers furious

  Customers flooded the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's Facebook page with complaints last night after a network issue affected their ability to access their money.

• Fast five: this week in IT 9/12

  Your wrap of this week's Australian tech news.

• CBA to seek ideas with IdeaBank

  Developers and consumers with concepts for new banking applications could be $10,000 richer if the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) chooses their idea submission to its new website, IdeaBank.

• Banks encumbered with IT legacy, compliance: Experts

  Australian banks need to upgrade IT infrastructure and data gathering skills if they want to compete with new players such as Google, according to financial IT consultants.

• CBA's Kaching app still in test mode

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has revealed that its iPhone Kaching application, which was announced on 25 October 2011, is still not available from Apple’s App Store due to testing delays.

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  CBA introduces Everyday Settlement payment service

  Business customers will be able to access funds from their Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) merchant terminals the same day following the rollout of a new service called Everyday Settlement.

• Wednesday Grok: Kaching — ring in the laughter, get in on 'The Joke'

  Someone in marketing at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) obviously thought 'Kaching' — you know, the sound of a cash register ringing up a sale — was a clever name for a mobile payment system.

• Inside the Commonwealth Bank's new flagship Sydney branch

  The new branch is located in Commonwealth Bank Place along with its new head offices

• Commbank's new head offices: In pictures

  The new buildings come equipped with a range of technology to encourage mobility and a flexible, paperless culture of working

• CBA speculates on property investment applications

  Potential property buyers who want to play the Australian market without blowing their cash can now try for free with the release of a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) website called Investorville.

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  CommBank updates mobile apps, eyes social payments

  The CommonWealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has updated is suite of mobile banking applications with native apps for the iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone and the browser-based HTML5, with technology for near field communications (NFC) and social payments on the way.

• Consumers will adopt contactless technology: CommBank

  The Commonwealth Bank (ASX: CBA) has estimated it will take up to a year before consumers feel comfortable with contactless credit card technology.

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  CBA online banking site malfunctions

  Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) says services on its internet banking site were interrupted on Wednesday with customers unable to complete bill payments, transfers and international money transfers.